Innovations to Watch Speed Demon Jaguar recently unveiled its 2016 F-TYPE R Coupe at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show. It boasts new all-wheel drive technology as well as convertible […]
Innovations to Watch Speed Demon Jaguar recently unveiled its 2016 F-TYPE R Coupe at the 2014 Los Angeles Auto Show. It boasts new all-wheel drive technology as well as convertible […]
Stepping Out After Dark Kay Unger’s metallic lace-yoke cocktail dress combines a boat-illusion neckline with a V-back and an embellished sheath silhouette. $550; neimanmarcus.com Perennial Pearls Dior’s latest Mise en Dior […]
Great Winter Escapes Tropical Getaway Opened in late 2013, The Ritz-Carlton, Aruba occupies an enviable spot on pristine Palm Beach. Its 265 guest rooms and 55 suites boast balconies with […]
Seasonal Fare On the Road James Beard award-winning chef RJ Cooper of DC’s Rogue 24 has opened Gypsy Soul, a new restaurant in Fairfax’s Mosaic District. Cooper was inspired to […]
GALA 2014 Awards Each year, a panel of building industry professionals is selected to judge new homes and communities in the Mid-Atlantic region and to choose their nominees for the […]
The Sherman Building—a 160-year-old National Historic Landmark known as the “Old Soldiers’ Home”—was among several important DC buildings damaged by the 2011 earthquake. Entire sections of masonry collapsed and the […]
Art Meets Function Born in a bomb shelter in a small Israeli town near the Jordan River, Shlomi Abukassis grew up noticing everything—from beauty to destruction. He was drawing, dancing […]
A Sense of Place When self-taught chef Patrick O’Connell opened The Inn at Little Washington in a former auto repair shop in 1978, few would have wagered that the venture […]
Creative Cabinetry Alexandria interior designer Shazalynn Cavin-Winfrey—a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America—is partnering with Christiana to craft SCW Interiors Custom Cabinetry. Her high-end line boasts mortise-and-tenon joinery, soft-close […]
Design Intervention The eighth annual DC Design House will showcase the work of more than 20 local designers in a new, 8,870-square-foot, farmhouse-style residence in McLean. Designed by Harrison Design […]
Grand Opening First, rumors swirled. Then there was uncertainty. Then waiting and more waiting. As the former Washington Design Center building in Southwest began its transition into the future home […]
A Refined Mix It all started with the bowling alley. Its long expanse of professional-grade lanes fills the lower level of a sprawling, custom stone house in Woodbridge, Virginia—a dream […]
Better by Design For most families planning to build or renovate, functionality and ease of movement are essential. But in the case of a McLean couple designing a home to […]
Glass tower Matthew Small, an executive at the educational software firm Blackboard, Inc., couldn’t have been surer of his goals for the merger of his Penn Quarter duplex with the […]
Tailored Style When Samantha Friedman was asked to update and decorate the interiors of a 3,500-square-foot Dupont Circle residence, she took her cues from her debonair bachelor client. “I instantly […]
Balancing Act Eight years ago, a fire almost destroyed an 1891 wood-frame house in Garrett Park, Maryland, where such Victorian-era architecture is revered. Town preservationists hoped the burned dwelling could […]